Pinks, Edwin Dennis Picton, son of Edwin Charles and Annie Selina Pinks, of New Malden, Surrey; b. Nov. 17, 1888; adm. Jan. 16, 1902 (A); left July 1906; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1910; won the Camb. Univ. Colquhoun Sculls 1909; London Sculling Cup 1913; runner-up, Diamond Sculls at Henley 1913; Lieut.-Commdr. R.N.V.R.; served with the R.N.Div. at Antwerp and the Dardanelles 1914-5; with the Grand Fleet Jan. 1916 - Aug. 1918; served in Great War II as Cdr. R.N.V.R.; Naval Liaison Officer with General de Gaulle; entered the service of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. 1921, and became manager of its marketing organisation in Belgium; m. Nov. 10, 1931; Nancy Helmsley, daughter of Harold Broadbent, of Hampton Court, Middx; d. 1949.
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